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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JULIUS A. PEAsE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new Process of Tanning; and I do declarethe following to be a full description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in using the extract of logwood.

To enable others skilled in the art to use my invention, I will proceed to describe the operation: I dissolve, say, one pound of the extract in about two pails full of water, which makes a very strong liquor. In this Iplace my skins and let remain until tanned-f0r a calf-skin about three days, which, by the usual process, takes about six weeks. The liquor costs less than the bark liquors generally used. I know that the extract of log: wood has been used to color skins after they were tanned; I do not claim that.

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The use of the above-mentioned material for tanning, either alone or in combination-with other materials,

substantially as above described.

JULIUS A. PEASE.

Witnesses:

J. B. Norms, Ms. A. Bnnwsrnn. 

